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Saturday, July 30, 2016

Obscura Insania are a band from Venezuela that plays a mixture of stoner and doom metal and this is a review of their 2016 album "Sodoma" which was released by Sepulchral Silence Records.

Thunder and rain sounds start off the album before going into more of a heavier doom metal direction and the riffs also bring in dark sounding melodies at times and there is also a brief use of psychedelic elements which also gives the music more of a stoner rock edge along with a small amount of air raid sirens.

Vocals are done in more of a clean singing fashion while also having their aggressive moments and the music also brings in a great amount of 90's influences and when guitar solos and leads are utilized they bring in even more of a dark and melodic doom metal style and all of t he songs stick to either a slow or mid paced musical direction and the last track is very long and epic in length.

Obscura Insania plays a musical style that takes a traditional style of doom metal and mixes it with stoner rock to create some very dark, heavy and melodic music, the production sounds very professional while the lyrics are written in Spanish and cover dark themes.

In my opinion Obscuria Insania are a very great sounding mixture of stoner and doom metal and if you are a fan of those musical genres, you should check out this band. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Candelada" "Mandragora" and "Una Nueva Maldad". 8 out of 10.